Pet Names

I have several nicknames. I have "name" within a certain group of people.

Anne - only family members call me Anne. I don't want other people calling me Anne unless I told them to, and the only people I tell to call me Anne are boyfriends (and when we split up, they revert back to calling me with my real nickname Ma-Anne. It's sort of automatic)

Ma-Anne/Maan - most of my friends call me this. This is the nickname I used in school and I grew up with.

Marie - almost all TNC people and Expedia people use this to call me. I'm only Marie inside PS. It actually started as a mistake. My name tent in NHO showed Marie, I don't know why. My job offer indicated Ma-Anne. Whoever's mistake that was, I'll never know. Anyway, I just stuck with the name to avoid confusion from the other Maans in PS.

Mescobar - it's the thing in Cendant, people calling people by their NT login, and it's not even the first letter of one's first name and the last name, it's really pronouncing the whole thing as if it's one word ("mes-co-bar")

Amrie - one of the names that was created because of the Sam Syndrome of the OT Addicts. They rarely use this though compared to my other nickname from them.

Marue - the other name that was a product of Sam Syndrome. This has become my official name in our barkada. So, you'll hear the OT addicts shouting "Marue, Marue, Marue" to call me. Most of their text messages start with "Marue!" Other ET peeps even got used to calling me by this name because they hear it a lot. There was someone from NPR who actually thought Marue was my real name. I have adopted this nickname so much and it's been dear to me because of the people who use it to call me.

I just thought about names because a friend of mine and I were talking about how our barkada likes to give/use pet names. We've invented tons already and each name has become special because it somehow displays the dynamics of our relationship. I'm just missing my friends...